Countryside in the Age of the Modern State

Catherine McNicol Stock is Associate Professor of History and American Studies at Connecticut College. She is the author of Main Street in Crisis: The Great Depression and the Old Middle Class on the Northern Plains and Rural Radicals: Righteous Rage in the American Grain, also from Cornell. Robert D. Johnston is Associate Professor of History and American Studies at Yale University. He is the coeditor, with Burton J. Bledstein, of The Middling Sorts: Explorations in the History of the American Middle Class.

An excellent collection of well-argued and provocative essays. It has much to tell us about rural America in the twentieth century and suggests the rich possibilities for still more rural history.- David E. Hamilton, University of Kentucky (The Journal of American History) Attempting to offer a view of the variety of American agrarian experience, this edited volume includes treatments of Native Americans, African Americans, Caribbean and Mexican farm workers, Amish women and Applachian mountaineers.(Public Administration Review)